The Wheels on the Bus

Our annual Preschool Pals bus ride was today.  We have the cutest bus driver in the whole world who takes us for a little spin every year and ends the day with treats.  The girls had a blast riding around with their friends and since Hunt gets to ride the bus next year to school it was a good practice run to start prepping her for that experience.  (one I'm sure she will do fine with but will be extremely hard for me.)

 I also had a fun surprise of running into Shaun Adams while we were at the bus depot.  Shaun's family ran the lodge when Chris and I first met and he actually baptized Chris a year later.  I haven't seen him since our wedding so it was crazy to run into him there and I was pretty excited and probably scared the poor guy.  Yes Chris I'm living up to my DJ nickname to the fullest. 

Belated Birthday Celebration

The past month Chris has been coming up with all sorts of things he wants to get me for my birthday.  He wanted to go all out but since we are moving I didn't want more "stuff" to deal with so I told him I just wanted him to plan a day for me, where I just had to wake up and he took care of all decisions from breakfast to bedtime and I was just along for the ride.  The man knows me well.  Not only did he plan a day, he planned a night too.

 A hotel with a swimming pool and lots of junk food and he had three really happy girls.

 The next day we went over to City Creek were Huntley begged to swim in the fountains, even thought it was freezing out, and Paisley cried whenever they shot higher than two feet in the air. 

 We ended our week by getting family pictures taken.  Hunt thought she had died and gone to heaven and is still showing me poses she wants to do for next time we have pictures taken.  Pais on the other hand gave the photographer the evil eye the entire home and I'm crossing my fingers we end up with at least one picture that we can frame.  

After pictures we let the girls play at the park.  I wish we would have still had someone taking pictures because Pais finally started smiling.  Maybe next year she will cooperate better.

Picnic Weather

Chris got home yesterday which means hooray for outside adventures!  Today's activity was fishing but since we only caught one lousy fish (who actually tasted really good) it just ended up being a sweet picnic.

Pais was quite proud of this pretty awesome rock creation she made.  It was so fun to watch her searching for really strange looking rocks to pile on top of each other.

Hunt found a dead log wedged between two trees that made for a pretty good bench. She was even nice enough to share it with her sister.

The other day my dad commented on how well my girls get along.  I don't think I have ever realized how they really do get along so well and are always looking out for each other.  They are each others best friend and I hope it always stays that way.

Couins {All Week Long}

Last week Uncle Rob went out of town and since we aren't attached to any house at the moment we got to go up and have a week long cousin sleep over.  It was awesome.

 Our two sassy little babies had fun being best friends/duking it out but as long as they were in the tub life was good. 

 Living with my sister had lots of perks.  Like the fact she doesn't mind cooking dinner and I don't mind cleaning it up.  But one night neither of us wanted to do either so we headed over to IKEA for dinner and let the kids go wild testing everything out.

 We spent lots of time playing outside.  The wind always blows at Kristi's house so kite flying was a must.

 Sometimes the wind was a little too much and ends up blowing your car into a curb though.

We tried the park once.  Pais found out the hard way the slide was really fast.

I'm a bad mom and was laughing so hard at her faces I couldn't even pick her up.  Luckily she got over the shock of landing on her backside pretty fast and figured out a safer alternative to go down the slide.

 And thanks to Russell and Scott I am no longer able to sleep in and can hopefully keep up the habit and start being super productive in the morning!

Thirty

Last week I had a birthday, the big 3-0.  Chris was out of town so we didn't do much but play outside and enjoy the sunshine.  The next night we were able to sit around the fire and eat cake.  I seriously have the best sibling who brought me yummy treats and even fireworks for my cake.  Hooray for a new decade!

Here Fishy Fishy

 Our "daddy" week flew by this past week!  Our biggest adventure was finding a lake with melted ice and catching a few fish. 

 Over the winter and lapse of regular fishing Huntley has now become scared of fishing and Paisley has taken over all reeling in duties.  She is a pro!

Hunt on the other hand needed something to entertain herself with so the two of us built our family out of rocks.

 Super entertaining and fun until Pais decided to join in the fun by knocking people over.  Not cool Pais, not cool.

 Our daddy week went by way too fast.  Mainly due to Chris and I spending a few days looking for our new home.  We actually found one and now we get to patiently wait for this to be the view from our front porch.

The only good thing about waiting is by the time it's our view the snow will be gone.

Since the new place has a little bit more grass than the old place we spent a lot of time checking out lawnmowers. 

The girls are obsessed and if we can figure out how to extend the gas I'm going to have my grass mowed on a daily basis.

Springing into Spring Time

We love that spring is here.  The sunshine, the warm weather, and even the rain.  It's worth getting stuck inside occasionally still so we can jump in puddles.